Getaway Reads: Young Adult, Movies Based on a Book, & Non-Fiction

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Maybe you're not going to the beach, but it is summer, and we bet you'd like some fun reads for your vacation getaway - even if it's just a hammock in the backyard! We have combed the internet for some likely contenders for your beachbag, suitcase, or lap, whatever the case may be, and tried to include some new titles (ones without an enormous hold list) and some older ones you might have missed.

Young Adult

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh

Mosquitoland by David Arnold [eBook] 

Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky

Summer of Sloane by Erin L. Schneider

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

Since You Asked... by Maurene Goo

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch [eBook & eAudio]

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

The Book is Always Better Than the (Upcoming) Movie

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle [graphic novel & Playaway]

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier

The Gunslinger by Stephen King [eBook & eAudio]

The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Snowman by Jo Nesbø 

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon 

Non-Fiction

VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave by Nina Blackwood et al.

Between Them: Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford

Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Life, On the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones by Rich Cohen

The Third Plate: Field Notes on a New Cuisine by Dan Barber

Searching For John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know About Life I Learned From Watching '80s Movies by Jason Diamond 

Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg 

Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose 

Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest by Jen Doll

Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed the Ocean by Les Standiford [eBook]

You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel

I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere But the Pool by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella

So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley text and photographs by Roger Steffens

Little Labors by Rivka Galchen

But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman

Getaway Reads: Classics and Fiction

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Maybe you're not going to the beach, but it is summer, and we bet you'd like some fun reads for your vacation getaway - even if it's just a hammock in the backyard! We have combed the internet for some likely contenders for your beachbag, suitcase, or lap, whatever the case may be, and tried to include some new titles (ones without an enormous hold list) and some older ones you might have missed.

Classics

Kindred by Octavia Butler [eBook & eAudio]

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene [eAudio]

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

The Natural by Bernard Malamud

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

Dune by Frank Herbert 

Jaws by Peter Benchley

The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure - The "Good Parts" Version abridged by William Goldman

The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler 

A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul 

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

White Nights In Split Town City by Annie Dewitt

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

The Vacationers by Emma Straub

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B. J. Novak

The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick

All Stories Are Love Stories by Elizabeth Percer

My Mrs. Brown by William Norwich

Relativity by Antonia Hayes

The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler

The Animators by Katla Rae Whitaker

The Distant Marvels by Chantel Acevedo

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashidi

Arcadia by Lauren Groff

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

Perennials by Mandy Berman

Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro

The Nix by Nathan Hill

She Poured Out Her Heart by Jean Thompson

Siracusa by Delia Ephron

Jonathan Unleashed by Meg Rosoff

Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Getaway Reads: Romance, Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Block Island, Rhode Island, USA. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/137_3096512/1/137_3096512/cite. Accessed 25 May 2017.

Maybe you're not going to the beach, but it is summer, and we bet you'd like some fun reads for your vacation getaway - even if it's just a hammock in the backyard! We have combed the internet for some likely contenders for your beachbag, suitcase, or lap, whatever the case may be, and tried to include some new titles (ones without an enormous hold list) and some older ones you might have missed.

Romance/Domestic Fiction

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

First Comes Love by Emily Giffin

Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Falling by Jane Green

Daughters of the Bride by Susan Mallery

Swell by Jill Eisenstadt

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

A Window Opens by Elizabeth Egan

The Sunlit Night by Rebecca Dinerstein

Always by Sarah Jio

Forever Is the Worst Long Time by Camille Pagan

On Turpentine Lane by Elinor Lipman

Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel

Forever Summer by Jamie Brenner

The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner

The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

Mystery/Suspense

The Dry by Jane Harper

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian

The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell

It's Always the Husband by Michele Campbell

Let Me Die In His Footsteps by Lori Roy [eBook & eAudio]

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

The Ruins by Scott Smith

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

Dead Connection by Alafair Burke [1st in series]

Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry

The Sister by Poppy Adams

Before We Met by Lucie Whitehouse

The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen

Science Fiction/ Fantasy

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett [book on CD & eBook]

Wool by Hugh Howey 

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 

Feed by Mira Grant

Ancestor by Scott Sigler [eAudio]

The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood

Infomocracy by Malka Older

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer [eAudio]

Everfair by Nisi Shawl

The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

Updraft by Fran Wilde

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt